Aniket is the Founder and CEO of Haqdarshak, a social enterprise working to support individuals and micro-businesses to avail the benefits of government welfare schemes. He has been building Haqdarshak for the last 9 years and has been awarded as one of the Global Social Innovators of the Year, 2023 by Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Motsepe Foundation, and World Economic Forum. He was also the Rockefeller Bellagio summer resident fellow in July 2024.
An alumnus of SRCC, Aniket has been a Teach for India, Acumen, and Unreasonable fellow. He was on the advisory board of Teach for India for 2 years and is also currently on the Board of trustees for the YP Foundation. He was awarded the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in 2019.
Haqdarshak uses a mobile app and a field force of 55,500+ trained women agents to help citizens discover, apply for, and benefit from government and private schemes/benefits. They have helped 79.9 Lakh+ families and 1,25,000+ micro businesses get over INR 19,400 Cr+ in benefits, while the women entrepreneurs earned more than 22 Crore over the years.
Haqdarshak works closely with companies and supports their workers and staff to avail the benefits of government welfare schemes.
Haqdarshak has also launched the Yojana Card, which is aimed at combining social security and financial inclusion services into one channel for the customer. It's an unique, digitally-enabled social security card for customers to access government schemes, social security, financial services and other welfare services for their family and business via a single channel enabled by last mile support.
We are working to reach 100 million families by 2030 through an open-platform training approach aimed at grassroots organizations in India and other countries.